The Broom

What the Broom means in Katina

The Broom is the card of cleaning. Among the Katina symbols it describes sorting through what has piled up, letting go of what has had its day, and making room for a fresh page in life. Sweeping a room is a small job, but it changes the air in the room, and the card carries that small yet powerful change.

Its first meaning is cleansing. Old hurts, habits that no longer work, relationships and possessions that are no longer good for you build up over time. The Broom asks you to notice them and carry them out. Read the wish to clear something alongside its cost. As you sort an object, memory or habit, ask what you want to preserve and what need remains after it is removed.

Its second meaning is order. Simplifying a scattered life, a tangled piece of work or feelings that have become mixed up belongs to this card. The changes made in the first rush of a fresh start belong here too, and the card wants that rush to become a lasting habit.

When the Broom appears, the real question is this: what are you still carrying that has long been waiting to be put down? The card asks what you want to preserve and what you are prepared to release. Consider the value of what is being removed and the need it leaves behind. Sometimes a person only realises how much room they gave something once they have let it go.

Area	What the Broom says
General	Cleaning, cleansing, order
Love	Old hurts to discuss; the choice of what to preserve or release
Work	Simplifying, reorganising
Reversed	Problems swept under the rug, or clearing too much

The Broom in a Katina love reading

The Broom brings accumulated hurts, recurring habits and the wish to clear an old issue into a love reading. Examine what has been left unspoken, which change is wanted and what each person wants to retain. A difficult conversation and a resolved matter are separate parts of that work.

In an ongoing relationship, the Broom says the time has come for an honest conversation. If there is a subject that has been put off for a long time, an old wound reopened in every argument or an unease nobody has named, the card asks you to put it on the table. Name the issue you want to discuss and what you hope to change. Listen to the response and identify what remains unresolved; speaking about a hurt and resolving it are separate matters.

After a breakup, the Broom describes gathering up what is left: old messages, photos, keepsakes, and above all the place that relationship still holds inside you. Throwing everything out at once is not what the card wants; it asks you, without hurrying, to choose consciously what to keep and what to let go.

If you are single, the Broom asks which expectations from the past still shape your choices. Identify what you want to preserve, what no longer fits and what you want to bring into a new connection.

In the other person’s position, examine the words and actions relating to an old issue. Has a wish for change been expressed, and what response are you awaiting? Read the clearing theme through that exchange rather than assume the person is ready to move on.

Sweeping problems under the rug is the card’s darker side in love. Brushing things aside instead of talking, pushing the dust into a corner nobody sees with “it’s nothing”, makes the relationship look clean without making it clean. Another shadow is hasty cleaning: sweeping people out of your life at every disagreement.

In the relationship	What the Broom describes
Hurts piled up	A subject to discuss; what remains unresolved after speaking
After a breakup	Gathering up what is left, consciously
Getting ready for someone new	Wiping off the dust of the past
Your own stance	The difference between cleaning up and sweeping under the rug

The Broom at work and with money

At work, the Broom describes reorganisation: processes being simplified, a project that is not working being closed, a change in the team or in responsibilities. Sometimes the card shows a clear-out you need to start yourself; sometimes, a reorganisation the company is carrying out.

Its practical advice is to start small. Choose a practical place to begin: your desk, inbox or task list. Separate unfinished work from work you have decided to stop, then consider what each choice requires. Unfinished jobs, emails waiting for a reply and postponed tasks pile up and drain your energy; the Broom asks you to finish them one by one or consciously let them go. Deciding what you will not do, instead of trying to do everything, is a kind of cleaning too.

With money, the Broom means clearing and simplifying: cutting unnecessary costs, cancelling forgotten subscriptions, making a plan to close an old debt. Examine what each cost serves, what cancelling it would involve and which obligation remains. The clearing theme concerns those decisions and their effect on the figures. If you have decided to get your debts in order, the Broom tells you to start in one corner: list the expenses, recurring charges and outstanding amounts first. Choose one item to review, record the decision and check what still needs attention. A smaller task gives the clearing theme a concrete place in the budget. Simplifying can also involve loss: a service, convenience or commitment you valued. Set that cost beside what you want to preserve in the budget.

The reversed Broom: swept under the rug, or swept too hard

Larisa does not read a reversed card the same way every time; with the reversed Broom, the question is whether the clearing is being put off or overdone. These are the directions that come forward.

• Sweeping under the rug: the problems have been seen but not talked about. The dust has been pushed into a corner out of sight, but the room has not really been cleaned. Identify what has been left unanswered and where it still affects the choices under discussion. Consider the cost of keeping it out of view.
• Cleaning too much: the person is quickly removing everything and everyone from their life. The search for a perfect order ends up sweeping out what is valuable along with the dust.
• Cleaning put off: something that needs to be let go has still not been released; the person knows it but cannot take the first step.

With the Door or the Road, examine what beginning a clear-out would require and what is preventing it. With the Mice, consider the ongoing cost of a concern left unresolved. Connect the pairings with the task, exchange or decision you can name.

How the Broom changes next to other cards

The Broom sweeps through the area of whatever card lies beside it: it says there is a cleansing, a simplifying or a goodbye in the subject that card describes. The neighbouring card shows what is being swept away.

Pairing	What it means
the Broom + the House	Clearing the air at home; sorting out what has built up
the Broom + the Mice	A gnawing concern beside the work of sorting; which issue remains unresolved
the Broom + the Poppy	Clearing out a habit; coming back to yourself
the Broom + the Desert Wind	The aftermath of disruption; sorting what was scattered and assessing what remains
the Broom + the Cross	Setting the burden down; sorting out what should not be carried
the Broom + the Door	Carrying out the old and making room for the new
the Broom + the Heart	Old hurts within a bond; what each person wants to discuss, preserve or release
the Broom + the Grave	Tidying up after a period that has closed
the Broom + the Sun	Openness beside clearing; what becomes visible and what remains to sort

In a position describing the starting situation, examine what has accumulated and why it matters to the question. In a result position, consider what simplification would involve: what you would retain, what you would release and which responsibilities would remain.

In the Larisa app, select Three Paths and read the Broom in “First path result”, the eighth position. Examine what clearing or simplification would involve in that option: what you would retain, what you would release and which responsibilities would remain. Compare it with the beginning and development of the same path.

Symbols on the Broom card in the Larisa deck

A long-handled straw broom leans against the wall. Its handle is wrapped with decorated bands, and its bristles touch the floor. In front of it, a cloud of golden dust curls upwards and drifts towards a door standing ajar. The broom has stopped, but it looks as if it has done its work.

The door opens onto a sunny garden; warm light falls across the threshold, and flowers and greenery can be seen outside. The dust is moving towards that light. The card’s direction can be read in that dust: what is cleared away is not pushed into a dark corner but sent out through the open door, into the light. Cleansing is not hiding things; it is letting them go.

In the left corner, dried flowers, leaves and scattered red beads lie in a heap on the floor, not yet swept. Behind them stand a vase of dried branches and a lidded jar. This side of the room is dim and heavy; the side with the door is airy and bright. The card shows two states side by side: a past waiting to be cleared, and a present that has already opened its door to it. The broom leans against the wall, waiting for the hand that will take it up again.

The heap of dried flowers in the corner asks you for a decision: which faded feeling are you still keeping in a corner, and when you open the door, are you ready to say goodbye to it?